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If you run a buggy program on a modern OS, it won't crash the system or impact other processes. If you run a buggy program on DOS, it will write to random physical addresses, proba…

TIL! Thanks.

Selling what to Lenovo? Thinkpad? That's hardly a supercomputer. I'm not aware of any supercomputers built by Lenovo. IBM has built a lot.

Where did 'StaticRedux say anything about demanding anything? It's perfectly possible to report a bug without demanding that it be fixed.

The ford logo is a nice touch.

No, it's like telling the candy maker that their candy made them sick or otherwise left something to be desired. If the candy maker cares about making good candy, that can be usefu…

IBM.

Sadly, that's what I've been hearing for at least 5 years.

Yeah, if you choose to turn off hyperthreading. Pretty expected tbh - hyperthreading helps quite a bit for some things.

Welcomed and encouraged to submit their driver for consideration . I would guess that the vast majority of vendor-proprietary drivers would get rejected from upstream, so for most …

There are a number of things that could be done to improve the experience with proprietary drivers, but all of them undermine the Linux driver philosophy. For the kernel community,…

There's basically no chance that the current proprietary drivers will ever end up upstream, so if ARM / nvidia drivers were open source they would be out of tree. Given that the mo…